On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Joe Neeman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Albert Frantz <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm getting a strange and persistent bug trying to integrate LilyPond with
>> XeLaTeX, namely no graphics
>> (LilyPond) output in the final .pdf file.
>>
>> I've been testing with many files, most recently a simplified variant of
>> the sample XeLaTeX file in the
>> LilyPond documentation resources.
>>
>> I'm using LilyPond 2.12.3 on OS X 10.6 with the latest TeX Live 2010.
>> First I run this command:
>>
>> lilypond-book --output=sample lytex_sample.lytex
>>
>> Then I use the typeset button in TeXShop 2.37, selecting XeLaTeX as the
>> format of choice. (If I choose
>> LaTeX it compiles correctly, with LilyPond graphics; however, I need
>> XeLaTeX for my projects.)
>> Alternately, I navigate directly to the sample folder and run xelatex
>> lytex_sample.tex from the terminal.
>>
>
> I'm having the exact same problem[1]; it seems that xelatex has a problem
> converting the .eps files that lilypond produces. I managed to get it to
> work by passing --pdf to lilypond-book; however, if you do manage to get the
> eps route working, I'd be interested to hear how. My best attempt involved
> editing the "rungs" line of dvipdfmx.cfg  to replace -sPAPERSIZE=a0 with
> -dEPSCrop. Then the systems show up, but they're sometimes wrongly
> positioned.
>

...and funnily enough, after a few days of wondering, it just occurred to me
what the problem is: the eps files generated by lilypond have negative
coordinates in their bounding box.

Joe
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